I! NS game designer

Chapter 5 What is Zelda

"But little boss, then again, what about the funds?"

Wang Hao asked with a frown.

"Not to mention the voice actors, we don't even have the money to hold a press conference now, and subsequent repairs, maintenance, and various publicity all require money."

"And in terms of games, we currently only have one game, so it's difficult for players to want to buy it."

"I'll think of a way." Wei Junjie was silent for a moment and then said.

Although the development team of Picnic 1 in the previous life was more than 100 people, and it took 5 years of development and cost 6000 million yuan, most of it was spent on solving puzzles in the temple.

In this world, the system gives itself the modeling, characters, and temple puzzles of Picnic 1, which can save a lot of money, but the subsequent series of processes also require money.

As for what is Zelda you ask?
Zelda is about places you can't even imagine. He has thought of them all and is waiting for you to discover them.

Nintendo has maximized the freedom of its logic engine, and novel gameplay is created by players based on this, so it is difficult to exhaust.

Using the limited functions of the Switch to create unlimited fun, isn’t this better than some games that use almost infinite functions to create limited fun?
Even after five years, there are still countless players who are still looking for new ways to play. There are really not many stand-alone games that can do this, and even if they do, they basically rely on various mods.

A picnic is really like another small real world. As long as you are willing to explore, there will always be unknown surprises.

Craft every detail you see and want to use, rather than giving you a bunch of less interactive details.

It seems that every choice you think is free has been carefully planned by Lao Ren. To put it bluntly, players don't really like to explore the real unknown.

Players prefer things that seem unknown. If you try your best to climb to a place that is not guided by the system, you will be very disappointed if you find that there is nothing.

But a picnic will always allow you to see several temples in such a place, or hahaha, or a centaur and other possibilities.

This is Breath of the Wild.

On the other hand, although the dubbing of the picnic plot is either "ah lie" or "woo la" or "acridine", some main plot content also needs to be dubbed.

Although I can also do some simple dubbing, such as dubbing Link and Yahaha, and some villagers arrange the dubbing of side tasks for Link.

But for the more difficult dubbing tasks in storylines like Princess, Mipha, and the Four Temples, we still need to find people.

what?
Are you saying that there is no dialogue at all between the people who I, Wei Junjie, have matched?

You know the shit!

Aren't simple lines like "aha" and "acridine" dialogues?
what?
You said it would be fine to use a computer to synthesize these sounds.

Just love yourself!
What is this called? This is called Xixiwuzi, Wei Junjie!
what!
You said your thing is called Kroger?
Fart, in my opinion he just screamed haha!

As for games, I will first put together a collection of nostalgic games based on those games released by the company in the 90s.

Your own copyright, don’t use it in vain.

However, for future games, the focus will still be on the design of other games. I don’t want to be like my father and just rest on my laurels.

After chatting with Wang Hao, Wei Junjie also went to the company's processing plant.

At this time, the people in the workshop have basically completed the processing machine and installation of the main engine, but further testing is needed.

"Hi boss!"

"Hello, boss!" Seeing Wei Junjie approaching, the employees in the processing plant greeted him one after another.

Seeing these employees greeting each other warmly, Wei Junjie smiled and nodded.

"Xiao Wei, are you here?" Wei Junjie had just arrived in front of the desk when a middle-aged man in work clothes walked in and greeted Wei Junjie with a smile.

"Uncle Guoxing, how's the host situation going?" Wei Junjie looked at the middle-aged man in front of him and asked.

"It has been basically completed and is now being measured. It is estimated that it will take 2 or [-] days to confirm the results." Chen Guoxing said with a smile.

Chen Guoxing took out a pamphlet from his pocket, handed it to Wei Junjie, and said with a smile: "This is the information I just collected this morning. Take a look."

Wei Junjie quickly reached out to take the booklet and started reading it.

After reading it once, Wei Junjie showed a surprised expression and said, "Uncle Guoxing, what do you mean?"

"The compatibility between our machine and the game cartridge has been completely matched. As long as we make a few improvements, we can start mass production." Chen Guoxing said.

"However, Junjie, it seems that our factory has no funding. According to the current situation, we can only make 2 units at most.

"If 2 units are sold directly on our official website, they will be shipped to several directly operated stores in batches, and it will not exceed [-] units."

"Besides, I'm afraid that our game consoles won't be sold." Chen Guoxing said with some worry.

Hearing these words, Wei Junjie suddenly fell into silence.

What Chen Guoxing said is not unreasonable. In addition, he does not want to be like Nintendo in his previous life and has the support of initial players. This will be extremely difficult for his own products.

Although it can be promoted in the name of "nostalgia", "innovation" and "development" to sell feelings, how many people have believed in their company here for so many years?
And the crux of the problem is that the production scale of its own game consoles is very small, and there are also very few orders for game consoles in the market.

How to increase the customers of his factory and the trust and reputation of players is what worries Wei Junjie the most.

And even if you make a game console yourself, it will still require a lot of funds. It is impossible to make the factory fully funded with just one or two months of hard work.

However, Wei Junjie did not tell Chen Guoxing about these troubles, after all, he is a president and also Chen Guoxing's immediate boss.

To put it bluntly, it costs money to promote games, it also costs money to hold press conferences, it also costs money to produce games, it costs money to produce game consoles, and it also costs money to find people to promote them.

Looking at Wei Junjie who was silent on the side, Chen Guoxing patted him on the shoulder.

"Uncle Guoxing, are there production machines for players now?" Wei Junjie suddenly thought of this and raised his head and asked Chen Guoxing.

"Yes, do you want to try it?" Chen Guoxing nodded.

"Okay, I'll trouble you, Uncle Guoxing." Wei Junjie said quickly.

"Well, then you wait for me." Chen Guoxing said.

Currently, in the development department, basically everyone has one or two test machines or development machines. These test machines are used to test the technology and management capabilities of the game.

You know, the test machines used by developers are completely different from the production machines purchased by players.

Soon after, Chen Guoxing walked in with a production machine.

(End of this chapter)